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Santrock Ch.1 Introduction
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Undergraduate 2
09/19/2010

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Original Sin View
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The view that children were born into the world as evil beings (of original sin), and had to be conformed to fit a just society
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Tabula Rasa
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John Locke's belief that children are born a "blank slate"
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Innate Goodness View
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Jean Jacques Rousseau's belief that children are born good, and society corrupts them.
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Development
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The PATTERN OF CHANGE that begins at conception and continues throguh lifespan

REMEMBER CHANGE!!!

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Alfred Binet
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Developed the Binet test (the first modern test of intelligence), and  tasks to study attention, memory, and IQ (cognitive development)
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G. Stanley Hall
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Pioneered the questionnaire for large groups of children in Boston.

He asked questions such as "Where are your ribs?"

He also proposed that children follow an evolutionary-driven course.

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Arnold Gesell

 

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Theories driven by Darwin's evolutionary theory, he came up with the "Gesell Dome", in which he had a dome that children played in, with multiple cameras, so he could monitor their activities without getting involved.
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Context
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Settings in which development occurs
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Culture
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The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a grtoup that are passed from generation to generation
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ethnicity
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A characteristic based on cultural heritage, nationality, race, religion, and/or language
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socioeconomic status (SES)
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The grouping of people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics
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Socioemotional Proccess
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Changes in an individual's relaitonship with other people, emotions, and personality
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Biological Process
Definition
Changes in an individual's body
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Cognitive Process
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Changes in an indivdual's thought, intelligence, and language
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Prenatal Period
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Time from conception to birth
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Infancy
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Developmental Period from birth to approximately 18-24 months (1 1/2 to 2 years)
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Early Childhood
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End of infancy, and up to ages 5-6, or the start of preschool
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Middle and Late Childhood
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6-11 years (elementary school)
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Adolescence
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10-12 years until 18-22 years
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Nature
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Organistic, biological, maturational, genetic, inherited, internal.

Defined as what you are born into.

More sided in Rosseau's Innate Goodness theory

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Nurture
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Learning, environment, parenting, culture, socialization, external (i.e. education and nutrition)

More grounded in Locke's Tabula Rasa theory

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Early-Later Experience
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degree to which early experiences (especially in infancy) or later experiences are the key deterinants in a child's development
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Freud's Theories

Id

Ego

Superego

Definition

Psychoanalytic theory (beyond awareness)

Instincts

lusts and desires

Social conscience

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